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Cristiano Ronaldo got the better of Lionel Messi, scoring twice to lead Real Madrid to a 3-1 win at Barcelona and a spot in the Copa del Rey final.
After the first leg ended 1-1, Madrid neutralised Barcelona's passing game and counterattacked to perfection at the Camp Nou to hand its archrival its first home loss in any competition since last April.
It was also a second straight cup setback for the Catalan club, which is running away with the Spanish league but lost 2-0 at AC Milan in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 matchup.
While Messi had a quiet night, Ronaldo scored for a sixth straight visit to Camp Nou when he earned and converted a penalty in the 13th minute.
Ronaldo hit again on the break in the 57th before Raphael Varane got his second goal of the series in the 68th.
Jordi Alba pulled a late goal back for Barcelona, but it was much too late to prevent Madrid from going through 4-2 on aggregate.
Madrid will play either Atletico Madrid or Sevilla in the Copa del Rey final on May 18.
After struggling in his first encounters with Barcelona, Ronaldo has become a nemesis for the Catalan club by scoring goals that have directly contributed to them losing titles the past three seasons.
Besides ending Barcelona's cup defence this campaign, Ronaldo scored to dethrone Barcelona as league champions last season - after also netting the winning header against Barcelona in the 2011 cup final.
While Ronaldo put on one of his most memorable performances since joining Madrid, Messi was totally neutralised as the opposing defence again surrounded him and his teammates never picked up the slack.
A victory in the cup for Madrid would go some way toward salvaging what could be Jose Mourinho's last season with the club, after seeing its defence of the Spanish league title stutter and crumble.
With another "clasico" looming on Saturday at Madrid in the league, that title is firmly in Barcelona's grasp as it is 12 points clear atop the standings, with Mourinho's team even further back.
That means Madrid can turn its attention to next Tuesday's Champions League match at Manchester United, following a 1-1 home draw in the first leg of their last-16 series.
Since being thrashed 5-0 in his first game in charge of Madrid in 2010, Mourinho has a record of four wins, six draws and six losses against Barcelona. And Madrid has come a long way with only one loss in their last seven contests.
For Barcelona, it was their worst defeat at the hands of its fierce rival since losing 4-1 in the Santiago Bernabeu in 2008.
Barcelona suffered the same problems it had against Milan, unable to convert its better share of possession into goals, while its defense again proved brittle as it allowed goals for the 12th straight match.
The two cup losses also indicate that Barcelona is sorely missing coach Tito Vilanova, who is still undergoing treatment in New York after having a second tumor in two years removed from his throat in December.
Barcelona, which was again led by assistant coach Jordi Roura, has five wins, three draws and three losses since mid-January.
Barcelona came out looking sharp, and Messi brought the first collective gasp from the vibrant Camp Nou crowd with a shot just outside the far post from a tight angle after Pedro Rodriguez set him up inside the box.
But Ronaldo put Madrid in front by earning a penalty on the break when defender Gerard Pique stretched to try and dispossess him of the ball and ended up tripping the Portugal forward in the area.
Ronaldo dispatched the spot kick into the lower left corner of the net to beat goalkeeper Jose Pinto before running and sliding on his knees at the corner flag to the ire of the home fans.
Barcelona started the second half strong as Sergio Busquets forced goalkeeper Diego Lopez into a diving save, but again it was Ronaldo and Madrid who caught Barcelona off-balance and doubled the lead.
After Barcelona lost the ball in another frustrated attempt to unlock Madrid's defense, two touch passes left Angel Di Maria streaking toward the other end. The Argentina international cut back to bring Carles Puyol to the turf before firing a shot that Pinto did well to block, but the rebound fell to Ronaldo to drive home with his left foot.
Varane then put the result beyond all doubt when he was left all alone to rise up and head Mesut Oezil's corner kick off the underside of the crossbar before Alba got Barcelona's consolation goal two minutes from time.
Sevilla hosts Atletico on Wednesday needing to overturn the 2-1 loss in their first to move on to the final.
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May 9 (Bloomberg) -- KKR & Co., the buyout firm preparing to raise its first fund for real estate, hired Bryan Southergill to lead Asian property investing, said a person with knowledge of the situation.
Southergill, who hasn't yet started at KKR, will help expand the New York-based private-equity firm's property investments in the Asia region, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. Southergill was a Hong Kong-based managing director and head of Asia real estate investing for a JPMorgan Chase & Co. unit.
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KKR has committed more than $650 million of equity in 10 property transactions since it started its real estate unit, with balance-sheet cash representing about half the capital used, Scott Nuttall, head of global capital and asset allocation at KKR, said on an April 25 earnings conference call. The division is led by Ralph Rosenberg, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner.
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It can start with flashing lights, a tingling sensation and a feeling of unease, followed by excruciating pain. Migraines can be triggered by lack of food or too much stress but their underlying cause has remained a mystery. Now researchers have found that a migraine may be triggered by a protein deep in the brain that stimulates the neurons controlling facial sensations. The discovery creates a potential new target for safer migraine medicines and adds weight to the theory that neurons, not blood vessels, are responsible for migraine attacks. "Where a migraine starts is a key question," says Debbie Hay at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. "There has been a great deal of debate around the mechanisms of migraine. If we can pin this down, we may have better chances of preventing it." To investigate, Simon Akerman at New York University and Peter Goadsby at Kings College London, UK, studied two neuropeptides released by neurons thought to play a role in the pain associated with migraine. These protein-like molecules, called VIP and PACAP, first raised suspicion after they were found to be elevated in blood drained from the brains of people having a migraine attack. When researchers administered these peptides to volunteers, they found that they could cause a headache or migraine about two hours later. Both peptides widen blood vessels, which was thought to be significant in migraine. In fact, the only drugs specifically developed for migraine that are in use today – triptans – were designed to shrink blood vessels in the brain. As a result, they cannot be used by people with cardiovascular disorders. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
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Jo Marchant Most new painkiller drugs fail in clinical trials — but a growing placebo response may be to blame. Drug companies have a problem: they are finding it ever harder to get painkillers through clinical trials. But this isn't necessarily because the drugs are getting worse. An extensive analysis of trial data1 has found that responses to sham treatments have become stronger over time, making it harder to prove a drug's advantage over placebo. The change in reponse to placebo treatments for pain, discovered by researchers in Canada, holds true only for US clinical trials. "We were absolutely floored when we found out," says Jeffrey Mogil, who directs the pain-genetics lab at McGill University in Montreal and led the analysis. Simply being in a US trial and receiving sham treatment now seems to relieve pain almost as effectively as many promising new drugs. Mogil thinks that as US trials get longer, larger and more expensive, they may be enhancing participants' expectations of their effectiveness. Stronger placebo responses have already been reported for trials of antidepressants and antipsychotics2, 3, triggering debate over whether growing placebo effects are seen in pain trials too. To find out, Mogil and his colleagues examined 84 clinical trials of drugs for the treatment of chronic neuropathic pain (pain which affects the nervous system) published between 1990 and 2013. © 2015 Nature Publishing Group,
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Laura Sanders Scribes usually have pretty good handwriting. That's not the case for one prolific 13th century writer known to scholars only as the Tremulous Hand of Worcester. Now scientists suggest the writer suffered from a neurological condition called essential tremor. Neurologist Jane Alty and historical handwriting researcher Deborah Thorpe, both of the University of York in England, made the retrospective diagnosis August 31 in Brain after studying the spidery wiggles that pervade the scribe's writing. Essential tremor can cause shaking of the hands, head and voice and is distinct from other tremor-causing conditions such as Parkinson's disease. Here, the anonymous writer's peculiar script is evident (lighter portion of text) in an early Middle English version of the Nicene Creed, a summary of the Christian faith. Buried in the manuscript are clues that helped the researchers conclude that essential tremor plagued the Tremulous Hand. The Tremulous Hand of Worcester's writing appeared in more than 20 books, including the Nicene Creed, a summary of the Christian faith. The writer's distinctive script is the lighter portion of the text, about a third of the way down the page. Several clues led researchers to diagnose the scribe with essential tremor (see following images). © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2015.
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By Jon Cohen A virus that long ago spliced itself into the human genome may play a role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the deadly muscle degenerative disease that crippled baseball great Lou Gehrig and ultimately took his life. That's the controversial conclusion of a new study, which finds elevated levels of human endogenous retrovirus K (HERV-K) in the brains of 11 people who died from the disease. "This certainly is interesting and provocative work," says Raymond Roos, a neurologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois who treats and studies ALS but who was not involved with the finding. Still, even the scientists behind the work caution that more research is needed to confirm the link. "I'm very careful to say HERV-K doesn't cause the disease but may play a role in the pathophysiology," says study leader Avindra Nath, a neuroimmunologist at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland. "The darn thing is in the chromosomes to begin with. It's going to be very hard to prove causation." It was another retrovirus, HIV, that led Nath to first suspect a connection between viruses and ALS. In 2006, he was helping a patient control his HIV infection with antiretroviral drugs when he noticed that the man's ALS also improved. "That intrigued me, and I looked in the ALS literature and saw that people had reported they could see reverse transcriptase in the blood." Reverse transcriptase, an enzyme that converts RNA to DNA, is a hallmark of retroviruses, which use it to insert copies of their genes into chromosomes of their hosts. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Link ID: 21466 - Posted: 10.01.2015
James Hamblin Mental exercises to build (or rebuild) attention span have shown promise recently as adjuncts or alternatives to amphetamines in addressing symptoms common to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Building cognitive control, to be better able to focus on just one thing, or single-task, might involve regular practice with a specialized video game that reinforces "top-down" cognitive modulation, as was the case in a popular paper in Nature last year. Cool but still notional. More insipid but also more clearly critical to addressing what's being called the ADHD epidemic is plain old physical activity. This morning the medical journal Pediatrics published research that found kids who took part in a regular physical activity program showed important enhancement of cognitive performance and brain function. The findings, according to University of Illinois professor Charles Hillman and colleagues, "demonstrate a causal effect of a physical program on executive control, and provide support for physical activity for improving childhood cognition and brain health." If it seems odd that this is something that still needs support, that's because it is odd, yes. Physical activity is clearly a high, high-yield investment for all kids, but especially those attentive or hyperactive. This brand of research is still published and written about as though it were a novel finding, in part because exercise programs for kids remain underfunded and underprioritized in many school curricula, even though exercise is clearly integral to maximizing the utility of time spent in class.
By Sarah C. P. Williams Looking at photos of starving refugees or earthquake victims can trigger a visceral sense of empathy. But how, exactly, do we feel others' agony as our own? A new study suggests that seeing others in pain engages some of the same neural pathways as when we ourselves are in pain. Moreover, both pain and empathy can be reduced by a placebo effect that acts on the same pathways as opioid painkillers, the researchers found. "This study provides one of the most direct demonstrations to date that first-hand pain and pain empathy are functionally related," says neurobiologist Bernadette Fitzgibbon of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, who was not involved in the new research. "It's very exciting." Previous studies have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans to show that similar areas of the brain are activated when someone is in pain and when they see another person in pain. But overlaps on a brain scan don't necessarily mean the two function through identical pathways—the shared brain areas could relate to attention or emotional arousal, among other things, rather than pain itself. Social neuroscientist Claus Lamm and colleagues at the University of Vienna took a different approach to test whether pain and empathy are driven by the same pathways. The researchers first divided about 100 people into control or placebo groups. They gave the placebo group a pill they claimed to be an expensive, over-the-counter painkiller, when in fact it was inactive. This well-established placebo protocol is known to function similarly to opioid painkillers, while avoiding the drugs' side effects. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Pain & Touch; Emotions
Link ID: 21458 - Posted: 09.29.2015
By Jane E. Brody Mark Hammel's hearing was damaged in his 20s by machine gun fire when he served in the Israeli Army. But not until decades later, at 57, did he receive his first hearing aids. "It was very joyful, but also very sad, when I contemplated how much I had missed all those years," Dr. Hammel, a psychologist in Kingston, N.Y., said in an interview. "I could hear well enough sitting face to face with someone in a quiet room, but in public, with background noise, I knew people were talking, but I had no idea what they were saying. I just stood there nodding my head and smiling. "Eventually, I stopped going to social gatherings. Even driving, I couldn't hear what my daughter was saying in the back seat. I live in the country, and I couldn't hear the birds singing. "People with hearing loss often don't realize what they're missing," he said. "So much of what makes us human is social contact, interaction with other human beings. When that's cut off, it comes with a very high cost." And the price people pay is much more than social. As Dr. Hammel now realizes, "the capacity to hear is so essential to overall health." Hearing loss is one of the most common conditions affecting adults, and the most common among older adults. An estimated 30 million to 48 million Americans have hearing loss that significantly diminishes the quality of their lives — academically, professionally and medically as well as socially. One person in three older than 60 has life-diminishing hearing loss, but most older adults wait five to 15 years before they seek help, according to a 2012 report in Healthy Hearing magazine. And the longer the delay, the more one misses of life and the harder it can be to adjust to hearing aids. © 2015 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Hearing; Language
Link ID: 21449 - Posted: 09.28.2015
By Simon Makin Most people associate the term "subliminal conditioning" with dystopian sci-fi tales, but a recent study has used the technique to alter responses to pain. The findings suggest that information that does not register consciously teaches our brain more than scientists previously suspected. The results also offer a novel way to think about the placebo effect. Our perception of pain can depend on expectations, which explains placebo pain relief—and placebo's evil twin, the nocebo effect (if we think something will really hurt, it can hurt more than it should). Researchers have studied these expectation effects using conditioning techniques: they train people to associate specific stimuli, such as certain images, with different levels of pain. The subjects' perception of pain can then be reduced or increased by seeing the images during something painful. Most researchers assumed these pain-modifying effects required conscious expectations, but the new study, from a team at Harvard Medical School and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, led by Karin Jensen, shows that even subliminal input can modify pain—a more cognitively complex process than most that have previously been discovered to be susceptible to subliminal effects (timeline below). The scientists conditioned 47 people to associate two faces with either high or low pain levels from heat applied to their forearm. Some participants saw the faces normally, whereas others were exposed subliminally—the images were flashed so briefly, the participants were not aware of seeing them, as verified by recognition tests. © 2015 Scientific American
Keyword: Pain & Touch; Attention
Link ID: 21438 - Posted: 09.24.2015
A 26-year-old man who is paralysed in both legs has walked for the first time in five years – just by thinking about it. He is the first person to have his brain activity recorded and used to control a muscle-stimulating device in his legs. Every year, 250,000 to 500,000 people worldwide suffer spinal cord injuries, which can leave them partially or completely paralysed below the site of damage. Many rehabilitation clinics already offer functional electric stimulation (FES) devices, which activate the nerves that innervate leg muscles at the push of a button. But people with upper-body paralysis are not always able to operate the FES in this way. The new system bypasses the button and returns control to the brain. "We want to re-establish the connection between the brain and the leg muscles, to bring back the function that was once present," says Zoran Nenadic at the University of California Irvine. To do that, Nenadic and his colleagues combined an FES system with a brain-computer interface. The team developed an electrode cap that picks up the brainwaves created when a person thinks specifically about walking or standing still. They tailored the device to pick up brain signals from their volunteer – a man who has had little sensation below his shoulder blades for five years. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Robotics
Link ID: 21437 - Posted: 09.24.2015
By Kristin Ozelli Four years ago writer and producer Jon Palfreman was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He has chronicled his experience and that of many other "Parkies," as patients sometimes call themselves, in two books, the latest of which is Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease, published this year by Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, which traces some of the recent progress of medical researchers in treating this disease. He shared with Scientific American MIND senior editor Kristin Ozelli some of the insights he gleaned while working on this book. You wrote an earlier book about Parkinson's and produced a prize-winning documentary, The Case of the Frozen Addicts, and have experienced the disease personally. While you were researching Brain Storms, was there anything new you learned about the disease that really surprised you? What is truly surprising is just how long biomedical research takes to deliver life-changing therapies. The promising therapies around when I wrote my first book 20 years ago, like neural grafting and growth factors—therapies designed to replace, revive or protect dopamine neurons—well they haven't panned out. On the other hand, since my first involvement with Parkinson's, there have been some extraordinary advances in basic science. In a sense, the disease has been rebranded from a movement disorder (resulting from damage to a very small part of the brain) to a systemic condition involving not only tremor and rigidity but also a whole host of symptoms—from depression to sleep disorders, from constipation to dementia. Indeed, there's an entirely new theory of the disease that sees it as being driven by a protein alpha-synuclein that goes rogue and, prionlike, jumps from neuron to neuron creating havoc. © 2015 Scientific American
Keyword: Parkinsons
Link ID: 21435 - Posted: 09.23.2015
David Cyranoski A dispute has broken out at two of China's most prestigious universities over a potentially groundbreaking discovery: the identification of a protein that may allow organisms to sense magnetic fields. On 14 September, Zhang Sheng-jia, a neuroscientist at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and his colleagues published a paper1 in Science Bulletin claiming to use magnetic fields to remotely control neurons and muscle cells in worms, by employing a particular magnetism-sensing protein. But Xie Can, a biophysicist at neighbouring Peking University, says that Zhang's publication draws on a discovery made in his laboratory, currently under review for publication, and violates a collaboration agreement the two had reached. Administrators at Tsinghua and Peking universities, siding with Xie, have jointly requested that the journal retract Zhang's paper, and Tsinghua has launched an investigation into Zhang's actions. The dispute revolves around an answer to the mystery of how organisms as diverse as worms, butterflies, sea turtles and wolves are capable of sensing Earth's magnetic field to help them navigate. Researchers have postulated that structures in biological cells must be responsible, and dubbed these structures magnetoreceptors. But they have never been found. In research starting in 2009, Xie says that he used a painstaking whole-genome screen to identify a protein containing iron and sulfur that seems, according to his experiments, to have the properties of a magnetoreceptor. He called it MagR, to note its purported properties, and has since been examining its function and structure to determine how it senses magnetic fields. © 2015 Nature Publishing Group,
Keyword: Animal Migration
Link ID: 21431 - Posted: 09.22.2015
Nathan Seppa For a historically mistrusted drink, coffee is proving to be a healthy addiction. Scientific findings in support of coffee's nutritional attributes have been arriving at a steady drip since the 1980s, when Norwegian researchers reported that coffee seemed to fend off liver disease. Since then, the dark brown beverage has shown value against liver cancer, too, as well as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Coffee even appears to protect against depression, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Taken as a whole, these results might explain the most astonishing finding of all. People who drink two or more cups of coffee a day live longer than those who don't, after accounting for behavioral differences, U.S. researchers reported in 2012. Studies in Japan, Scotland and Finland agree. Talk about a twofer. Coffee not only picks you up, it might put off the day they lower you down. Yet coffee has had trouble shaking its bad-for-you reputation. It may be one of the most widely consumed drinks in the world, but people have long assumed that, at least in its energizing caffeinated version, coffee comes with a catch. "People notice the caffeine," says cardiologist Arthur Klatsky, who has researched coffee for decades at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research in Oakland. "And there is this general feeling that anything that has some effect on the nervous system has to have something bad about it." It doesn't help that caffeine is mildly addictive.
Keyword: Drug Abuse; Parkinsons
Link ID: 21420 - Posted: 09.20.2015
By Larry Greenemeier Advanced prosthetics have for the past few years begun tapping into brain signals to provide amputees with impressive new levels of control. Patients think, and a limb moves. But getting a robotic arm or hand to sense what it's touching, and send that feeling back to the brain, has been a harder task. The U.S. Defense Department's research division last week claimed a breakthrough in this area, issuing a press release touting a 28-year-old paralyzed person's ability to "feel" physical sensations through a prosthetic hand. Researchers have directly connected the artificial appendage to his brain, giving him the ability to even identify which mechanical finger is being gently touched, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In 2013, other scientists at Case Western Reserve University also gave touch to amputees, giving patients precise-enough feeling of pressure in their fingertips to allow them to twist the stems off cherries. The government isn't providing much detail at this time about its achievement other than to say that researchers ran wires from arrays connected to the volunteer's sensory and motor cortices—which identify tactile sensations and control body movements, respectively—to a mechanical hand developed by the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins University. The APL hand's torque sensors can convert pressure applied to any of its fingers into electrical signals routed back to the volunteer's brain. © 2015 Scientific American
Keyword: Pain & Touch; Robotics
Link ID: 21411 - Posted: 09.15.2015
A choir of Canadians with Parkinson's disease is helping researchers test how well the performers regain facial movement to express emotions. Tremors and difficulty walking are often the most noticeable symptoms of Parkinson's disease, which affects about one in 500 people in Canada. Those with the disease may also have limited facial movement, which hampers the ability to express themselves. For people with Parkinson's who have "masked face syndrome," it can be difficult for others to decipher how they're feeling. That's because we unknowingly mimic or mirror each other during interaction to connect. "Within a hundred milliseconds of seeing someone else smile or frown, we are smiling or frowning," said Frank Russo, a psychology professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. "We're mirroring what the other person is doing. And that's one of the things that is absent in Parkinson's. It's the absence of mirroring that is leading to some of the deficit in understanding other people's emotions." Having a static face can leave people with Parkinson's seem cold and aloof as they also show deficits in understanding other people's emotions. The patient can then become emotionally disconnected from others. Studying the 28 members of the Parkinson's choir has bolstered Russo's thinking that singing, facial expressions and social communications are interconnected. So far Russo has found that mirroring effect or mimicry was restored among choir participants who sang for 13 weeks. ©2015 CBC/Radio-Canada.
Keyword: Parkinsons; Emotions
Link ID: 21410 - Posted: 09.15.2015
Ever waited for a bus rather than take the short walk to work? Headed for the escalator instead of the stairs? Humans clearly harbour a deep love of lethargy – and now we know how far people will go to expend less energy. We will change our walking style on the fly when our normal gait becomes even a little more difficult. The finding could have implications for the rehabilitation offered to people with spinal injuries. Jessica Selinger and her colleagues at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, strapped volunteers into a lightweight robotic exoskeleton and put them on a treadmill. Initially, the team let the volunteers find their preferred walking rhythm – which turned out to be 1.8 steps per second, on average. Then the researchers switched on the exoskeleton, programming it to make it more difficult for the volunteers to walk at their preferred pace by preventing the knee from bending – and leg swinging – as freely. The exoskeleton didn't interfere with the human guinea pigs' ability to walk faster or slower than they preferred. Within minutes the volunteers had found a walking style that the exoskeleton would allow without offering resistance. Remarkably, though, they did so despite the fact that the exoskeleton only ever offered minimal resistance. By using breathing masks to analyse the volunteers' metabolic activity, Selinger's team found that subjects would shift to an awkward new gait even if the energy saving was only 5 per cent. "People are able to adapt and fine-tune in order to move in the most energetically optimal way," says Selinger. "People will change really fundamental characteristics of their gait." © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Movement Disorders
Link ID: 21398 - Posted: 09.11.2015
By Olivia Campbell Leave it to childbirth to cause a woman who's never felt pain in her life to now experience persistent discomfort. When a 37-year-old woman with a condition known as congenital insensitivity to pain gave birth, her labor was as painless as expected. But during the delivery, she sustained pelvic fractures and an epidural hematoma that impinged on a nerve in her lower spine. Since then, she has added an unfortunate variety of words to her vocabulary: Her hips "hurt" and "ache;" she feels a "continuous buzzing in both legs and a vice-like squeezing in the pelvis." When resting, she is left with "tingling" and "electric shocks." She now has headaches, backaches, period pains, and stomach cramps; and even describes "the sting" of a graze and "the sharpness" of an exposed gum. According to doctors who treated her, the woman's sensitivity to pain -- tested on the tops of her feet -- is 10 times higher than it was before she gave birth. Congenital insensitivity to pain is an incredibly rare genetic disorder — there are only 20 recorded cases — that causes individuals to be totally unaware of pain. Co-author of the paper Michael Lee explained how pain pathways start with specialized nerves, called nociceptors, that sense damaging temperatures or pressure and then fire off signals to the brain. Those signals make us feel pain to prevent further damage. In people with CIP, a defective gene prevents these signals from going through. But pain can also arise when nociceptors or nerves are damaged, as was the case when this woman's lumbar nerve was pinched during childbirth.
Keyword: Pain & Touch
Link ID: 21379 - Posted: 09.03.2015
By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel Some rare diseases pull researchers in and don't let them go, and the unusual bone condition called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) has long had its hooks in Aris Economides. "The minute you experience it it's impossible to step back and forget it," says the functional geneticist who runs the skeletal disease program at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in Tarrytown, New York. "It's devastating in the most profound way." The few thousand or so people with FOP worldwide live with grueling uncertainty: Some of their muscles or other soft tissues periodically, and abruptly, transform into new bone that permanently immobilizes parts of their bodies. Joints such as elbows or ankles may become frozen in place; jaw motion can be impeded and the rib cage fixed, making eating or even breathing difficult. Twenty years after he first stumbled on FOP, Economides and his colleagues report today that the gene mutation shared by 97% of people with the disease can trigger its symptoms in a manner different than had been assumed—through a single molecule not previously eyed as a suspect. And by sheer chance, Regeneron had a treatment for this particular target in its freezers. The company tested that potential therapy, a type of protein known as a monoclonal antibody, on mice with their own form of FOP and lo and behold, they stopped growing unwelcome new bone. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Movement Disorders; Trophic Factors
Link ID: 21377 - Posted: 09.03.2015
By Simon Makin Scientists claim to have discovered the first new human prion in almost 50 years. Prions are misfolded proteins that make copies of themselves by inducing others to misfold. By so doing, they multiply and cause disease. The resulting illness in this case is multiple system atrophy (MSA), a neurodegenerative disease similar to Parkinson's. The study, published August 31 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, adds weight to the idea that many neurodegenerative diseases are caused by prions. In the 1960s researchers led by Carleton Gajdusek at the National Institutes of Health transmitted kuru, a rare neurodegenerative disease found in Papua New Guinea, and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), a rare human dementia, to chimpanzees by injecting samples from victims' brains directly into those of chimps. It wasn't until 1982, however, that Stanley Prusiner coined the term prion (for "proteinaceous infectious particle") to describe the self-propagating protein responsible. Prusiner and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, showed this process caused a whole class of diseases, called spongiform encephalopathies (for the spongelike appearance of affected brains), including the bovine form known as "mad cow" disease. The same protein, PrP, is also responsible for kuru, which was spread by cannibalism; variant-CJD, which over 200 people developed after eating beef infected with the bovine variety; and others. The idea that a protein could transmit disease was radical at the time but the work eventually earned Prusiner the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He has long argued prions may underlie other neurodegenerative diseases but the idea has been slow to gain acceptance. © 2015 Scientific American
Keyword: Prions; Parkinsons
Link ID: 21373 - Posted: 09.02.2015
Boer Deng Palaeontologist Stephen Gatesy wants to bring extinct creatures to life — virtually speaking. When he pores over the fossilized skeletons of dinosaurs and other long-dead beasts, he tries to imagine how they walked, ran or flew, and how those movements evolved into the gaits of their modern descendents. "I'm a very visual guy," he says. But fossils are lifeless and static, and can only tell Gatesy so much. So instead, he relies on XROMM, a software package that he developed with his colleagues at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. XROMM (X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology) borrows from the technology of motion capture, in which multiple cameras film a moving object from different angles, and markers on the object are rendered into 3D by a computer program. The difference is that XROMM uses not cameras, but X-ray machines that make videos of bones and joints moving inside live creatures such as pigs, ducks and fish. Understanding how the movements relate to the animals' bone structure can help palaeontologists to determine what movements would have been possible for fossilized creatures. "It's a completely different approach" to studying evolution, says Gatesy. XROMM, released to the public in 2008 as an open-source package, is one of a number of software tools that are expanding what researchers know about how animals and humans walk, crawl and, in some cases, fly (see 'Movement from inside and out'). That has given the centuries-old science of animal motion relevance to a wide range of fields, from studying biodiversity to designing leg braces, prostheses and other assistive medical devices."We're in an intense period of using camera-based and computer-based approaches to expand the questions we can ask about motion," says Michael Dickinson, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. © 2015 Nature Publishing Group
Keyword: Movement Disorders
Link ID: 21370 - Posted: 09.01.2015
By Diana Kwon Each year doctors diagnose approximately 60,000 Americans with Parkinson's disease, an incurable neurodegenerative condition for which the number-one risk factor is age. Worldwide an estimated seven to 10 million people currently live with the malady. As U.S. and global populations grow older, it is becoming increasingly urgent to understand its causes. So far, researchers know that Parkinson's involves cell death in a few restricted areas of the brain including the substantia nigra (SNc), one of two big cell clusters in the midbrain that house a large population of dopamine neurons. These cells release dopamine and are involved in a variety of functions including reward processing and voluntary movement. Their death leads to the motor control and balance issues that are core symptoms of the disease. New research shows that these brain cells, most at risk in Parkinson's disease, require unusually high amounts of energy to carry out their tasks because of their highly branched structures. Like a massive car with an overheating engine, these neurons are susceptible to burnout and early death. This discovery emerged from a comparison of energy use in nigral dopamine neurons and in similar neurons found in the nearby ventral tegmental area (VTA), also in the midbrain. "We were trying to understand why dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra die in Parkinson's disease patients while there are so many other brain cells that have no problem at all," says Louis-Eric Trudeau, a neuroscientist at the University of Montreal and senior author of the study published in the August 27 Current Biology. © 2015 Scientific American,
Keyword: Parkinsons
Link ID: 21353 - Posted: 08.28.2015


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Gabrieli: Psalmi Davidici / Picotti, Capella Dvcale Venetia
1 CD / CPO / 2002-11-01Works: Andrea Gabrieli: Domine ne in furore tuo (Psalm 6), for 6 voices; Beati quorum remissae sunt (Psalm 31[32]), for 6 voices; Domine ne in furore tuo (Psalm 37 [38]), for 6 voices; Miserere mei Deus (Ps...
"These performances bring out so much of the gorgeous sonority in Gabrieli's music. The marvelous singing of the soloists and choir demonstrate the lavish riches...continue...
Onslow: String Quartets Vol. 3
1 CD / CPO / 2002-11-01Works: George Onslow: String Quartets (3), Op. 8; Quartet for Strings in F major, Op. 50/25; Quartet for Strings in F major, Op. 46/2
Caldara: Trio Sonatas, Cello Sonatas, etc / Parnassi musici
1 CD / CPO / 2002-10-01Works: Antonio Caldara: Sonata a 3 da chiesa, for 2 violins, cello & organ no 1 in F major, Op. 1/1; Chiaccona, for 2 violins & continuo, Op. 2/12; Sonata for cello & continuo no 14 in A minor; Sonata a 3 d...
Ensemble: Parnassi Musici
"The playing is varied and engaging, the passages of extremely soft playing (as in the spare-textured Adagio of the F-minor Trio Sonata) that exhibit remarkable...continue...
Les Maîtres de la Vielle Baroque / Loibner, Delfino, et al
1 CD / CPO / 2002-10-01Works: Philippe Dugué: Trio Sonata for 2 Musettes and Basso Continuo, Op. 4; Charles Buterne: Sonata (6) for Hurdy-Gurdy, Op. 2; Jean-Baptiste Dupuits: Sonata for Harpsichord and Hurdy-Gurdy, Op. 3; Ja...
Performers: Delfino, Riccardo; Le Chenadec, Laurent; Loibner, Matthias; Wimmer, Thomas; Zeilberger, Norbert
M. Haydn: Symphonies no 22, 23, 33 & 1C / Goritzki, et al
1 CD / CPO / 2002-09-01Works: Michael Haydn: Symphony in D major, MH 272 (P 42); Symphony in F major, MH 284 (P 14); Symphony (Partita) in E flat major, MH 35 (P 1); Symphony no 22 in D major, P 43
Conductors: Goritzki, Johannes
Ensemble: German Chamber Academy Neuss
Research into music over two centuries old can be both exciting and relevant, as cpo's Edition of all the Symphonies of Michael Haydn clearly shows....continue...
Lehár: Tatjana / Jurowski, Schellenberger, Lippert, Mewes
2 CD / CPO / 2002-09-01Works: Franz Lehár: Tatjana, opera in 3 acts (revised version of "Kukuska")
Performers: Bluth, Sebastian; Kober, Thomas; Lippert, Herbert [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Jurowski, Michail
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Chorus
"The soloists and orchestra jump into the fray with vigor, and Michail Jurowski is patently the right conductor for this Slavic enterprise. Notable vocal contributions...continue...
Loewe: Lieder & Balladen Vol 17 / Kaufmann, Garben
1 CD / CPO / 2002-09-01Works: Carl Loewe: Die Schwanenjungfrau, ballad for voice & piano, Op. 129/3; Am Klosterbrunnen, song for voice & piano, Op. 110/1; Schneeglöcken (AKA Blumenballade / Annunciata), for voice & piano; Di...
Performers: Cord Garben [Conductor/Piano]; Kaufmann, Julie
"Julie Kaufmann, one of CPO's best 'house' singers, sings beautifully from first to last, and is ably accompanied by Cord Garben. While Loewe's music often...continue...
Zelenka: Complete Orchestral Works / Sonnentheil, et al
3 CD / CPO / 2002-09-01Works: Jan Dismas Zelenka: Capriccio for 2 horns, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings & continuo no 2 in G major, ZWV 183; Hipocondrie à 7 Concertanti for 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 violins, viola & continuo in A maj...
Conductors: Sonnentheil, Jurgen
Ensemble: ; Das Neu-Eröffnete Orchestra
J.C. Bach: La Clemenza di Scipione / Max, et al
2 CD / CPO / 2002-08-01Works: Johann Christian Bach: La clemenza di Scipione, opera seria in 3 acts, CW G10 (T. 229) (incomplete)
Performers: Mammel, Hans-Jorg; Perillo, Linda; Schafer, Markus; Waschinski, Jorg; Wolff, Christine
Conductors: Max, Hermann
Ensemble: Das Kleine Konzert
The Roman general Scipio is the title hero of one of the last and maturest operas by Johann Christian Bach. Composed for London in 1778,...continue...
J.C. Bach: Complete Symphonies / Halstead, Hanover Band
5 CD / CPO / 2002-08-01Works: Johann Christian Bach: Symphony for orchestra "No. 1" in D major, Op. 3/1, CW C1a (T. 262/4); Symphony for orchestra "No. 2" in C major, Op. 3/2, CW C2a (T. 262/4); Symphony for orchestra "No. 3" in ...
Performers: Halstead, Anthony [Horn/Conductor]
Conductors: Halstead, Anthony
Ensemble: Hanover Band
This month [CPO has] brought together the complete symphonies of the youngest of Bach's sons from five single CDs from this edition to form a...continue...
Frankel: Complete Symphonies / Albert, Queensland SO
Rott: Symphony, Pastorales / Russel-Davies, Vienna RSO
1 CD / CPO / 2002-07-01Works: Hans Rott: Symphony in E major; Pastoral Overture
Conductors: Davies, Dennis R.
Ensemble: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
"Fellow students at the Vienna Conservatory in the 1870s...the sense that Mahler later purloined some his best-known ideas from this work is unmistakable. It has...continue...
A. Scarlatti: Concerti e Sinfonie per Flauto / Noferi, et al
1 CD / CPO / 2002-07-01Works: Alessandro Scarlatti: Concerti grossi (6) ("VI Concertos in Seven Parts"); Sonata for 3 flutes & continuo in F major; Sonata for flute, 2 violins, cello & continuo no 5 in A major; Suite for flute & ...
Conductors: Tenerani, Ottaviano
Ensemble: Il Rossignolo
"Scarlatti's instrumental style copies his vocal writing, and the musicians respond with vocally inspired performances. Noferi achieves a beautiful singing quality on the recorder. His...continue...
Hoffmeister: Clarinet Quartets / Klöcker, Vlach Quartet
1 CD / CPO / 2002-06-01Works: Franz Anton Hoffmeister: Quartet for Clarinet and Strings in A major (From unpublished 2nd series); Quartet for Clarinet and Strings in B flat major; Quartet for Clarinet and Strings in D major; Quar...
Performers: Klocker, Dieter
Ensemble: Vlach Quartet Prague
"CPO's sound is great - smooth as butter and nicely proportioned. The Vlach players are wonderful, sporting rich, satiny string ton. What else can I...continue...
Pleyel: Symphonies / Griffiths, Zürich CO
1 CD / CPO / 2002-06-01Works: Ignace Joseph Pleyel: Symphony in D major, Op. 3/1, B. 126; Sinfonia Concertante for flute, oboe, bassoon, horn (or violin, piano) & orchestra in F major, B. 11; Symphony in F major (Symphonie Pé...
Performers: Bovino, Riccardo
Conductors: Griffiths, Howard
Ensemble: Zurich Chamber Orchestra
Around 1800 Pleyel was regarded, next to Haydn and before Mozart, as Europe's most successful and most popular composer of instrumental music. His orchestral and...continue...
Fils: Symphonies / Gaigg, L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
"Thankfully, Michi Gaigg and L'Orfeo Barockorchester make a case for this forgettable music with lively, attentive playing in excellent recorded sound."-ClassicsToday...continue...
Haydn: Complete Piano Trios Vol 4 / Trio 1790
1 CD / CPO / 2002-05-01Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in C major, H 15 no 21; Keyboard Trio in E flat major, H. 15/22; Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in D minor, H 15 no 23
Stamitz: Chamber Works / Camerata Köln
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As usual, the Camerata Köln sounds splendidly, delivering performances as alert and vital as these works will likely ever see.
Beethoven Renovated / Quintessence Saxophone Quintet
1 CD / CPO / 2002-05-01Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan Overture in C minor, Op. 62; Variations (5) for Piano on "Rule Britannia", WoO 79; Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67; Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"
Ensemble: Quintessence Saxophone Quintet
Joseph I, Ferdinand III, Leopold I: Sacred Works / Haselböck
Martinu, Schnittke: Concertos for 2 Pianos/ Genova, Dimitrov
1 CD / CPO / 2002-04-01Works: Bohuslav Martinu: Concerto for 2 pianos & orchestra, H. 292; Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for piano, 4 hands & chamber orchestra; Hommage to Grieg, for solo violin & orchestra; Polyphonic Tango
Performers: Rabus, Kathrin
Conductors: Oue, Eiji
Ensemble: Genova & Dimitrov Piano Duo; Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
On this new release, now for the first time you have the opportunity to hear these two young artists together with a great orchestra, the...continue...
Onslow: Symphonies no 2 and 4 / Goritzki, Hannover Radio PO
1 CD / CPO / 2002-04-01Works: George Onslow: Symphony no 2 in D minor, Op. 42; Symphony no 4 in G major, Op. 71
Conductors: Goritzki, Johannes
Ensemble: Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
"Classical in form, incipiently Romantic in feeling, [Onslow's] works are spirited and expressive...the symphonies, if not masterpieces, are important works. Symphony No. 2 (1832)...is a...continue...
Singphonic di Lasso / Die Singphoniker
1 CD / CPO / 2002-03-01Works: Orlande de Lassus: Hort zu ein news Gedicht, lied for 5 voices, S. xviii/151; Der Meye bringt uns der Blumlein vil (J. Klieber), lied for 5 voices, S. xviii/75; Im Mayen hört man die Hanen kraye...
"The German vocal ensemble Die Singphoniker is remarkably versatile, as shown by the breadth of their repertoire. And versatility is the name of the game...continue...
Reinecke: Piano Quartets, Piano Quintet / Linos-Ensemble
Draeseke: Symphony no 2, Serenade Op 49 / Weigle, NDR PO
1 CD / CPO / 2002-03-01Works: Felix Draeseke: Symphony no 2 in F major, Op. 25; Serenade in D major, Op. 49
Conductors: Weigle, Jörg Peter
Ensemble: Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
In my Mountains -Nico Dostal Conducts Nico Dostal /Berlin PO
1 CD / CPO / 2002-03-01Works: Nico Dostal: Fröhliches Spiel, scherzo overture for orchestra; Spanishe Skizzen, suite for orchestra; Wiener Erinnerungen, waltz for orchestra; Blues-Fantasie, for piano & orchestra; Exotica, su...
Conductors: Dostal, Nico
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
J.F. Fasch: Cantatas / Max, Zádori, Norin, Mertens, et al
M. Haydn: Der Traum / Brunner, Schuchter, Boesiger, et al
Singphonic Grieg / Die Singphoniker
1 CD / CPO / 2002-01-01Works: Edvard Grieg: Jaedervise (Westerly Wind), for male chorus, EG 174; Min dejligste tanke (My Finest Thought), for male chorus, EG 169a; Afternstemning (Evening Mood), for male chorus, EG 162a; Bjornesk...
Ensemble: Die Singphoniker
"These songs all have folk roots, but Grieg's settings go well beyond a simple harmonization of folk or folk-like tunes. He varies texture, and, as...continue...
Festive Hanseatic Music - Lassus, Obrecht, et al / Cordes
1 CD / CPO / 2002-01-01Works: Julius Johannes Weiland: Laudate Dominum, for 8 voices; Veni sancte spiritus, for 5 voices; Wohl dem, der ein tugendsam Weib hat, for 6 voices; Julius Ernst Rautenstein: Ich schlafe, aber mein Herz w...
Conductors: Cordes, Manfred
Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance
Sinding: Symphonies no 1 & 2 / Dausgaard, NDR PO Hannover
E.T.A. Hoffmann: Dirna / Goritzki, Krautzberger, et al
1 CD / CPO / 2002-01-01Works: E.T.A. Hoffmann: Dirna, melodrama, AV 51
Performers: Herman, Martin; Klockow, Werner; Krautzberger, Angelika
Conductors: Goritzki, Johannes
Ensemble: Cantemus
Enna: The Little Match Girl, etc / Zeilinger, Sjöberg, et al
1 CD / CPO / 2002-01-01Works: August Enna: The Little Match Girl (Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne), musical fantasy; Hyrdinden og Skorstensfejeren, ballet for orchestra & narrator
Performers: Bonde-Hansen, Henriette; Sjoberg, Gitta-Maria
Conductors: Zeilinger, Roman
Ensemble: Danish Radio Sinfonietta; Sokkelund Choir
"Though he's forgotten today outside his native Denmark, several of the stage-works of August Enna had a wider currency during his lifetime. Most successful of...continue...
Wetz: Symphony no 3, Gesand des Lebens / Albert, et al
1 CD / CPO / 2002-01-01Works: Richard Wetz: Symphony no 3 in B flat major, Op. 48; Gesang des Lebens, for chorus & orchestra Op. 29
Conductors: Albert, Werner Andreas
Ensemble: Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra; Rheinland-Pfalz Youth Choir
"In almost every aspect the new CPO version of this powerful symphony is to be preferred to the pioneering 1981 Berlin recording recently reissued on...continue...
Schrecker: Flammen / Windfuhr, Sabrowski, Uhl, Chafin, et al
Graun: Christmas Oratorio / Max, Schmithüsen, et al
Atterberg: Piano Concerto, etc / Derwinger, et al
1 CD / CPO / 2001-11-01Works: Kurt Atterberg: Rhapsody for piano & orchestra, Op. 1; Concerto for Piano in B flat minor, Op. 37; Ballade och Passacaglia, for orchestra, Op. 38
Performers: Derwinger, Love
Conductors: Rasilainen, Ari
Ensemble: Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
"When I first heard the Piano Concerto in Dan Franklin Smith's recording, it struck me as the kind of concerto you might expect to encounter...continue...
Dittersdorf: Giob / Max, Schaefer, Lichtenstein, et al
2 CD / CPO / 2001-11-01Works: Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf: Giob (Job), oratorio
Performers: Abele, Ekkehard; Lichtenstein, Romelia; Perillo, Linda; Schafer, Markus; Waschinski, Jorg
Conductors: Max, Hermann
Ensemble: Das kleine Konzert
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf has to be seen as Joseph Haydn's most serious rival from the 1960s to about 1790. Dittersdorf's fame was founded not...continue...
Schnittke: Music for the Movies / Frank Strobel, et al
1 CD / CPO / 2001-11-01Works: Alfred Schnittke: My Past and Thoughts; The End of St. Petersburg; Master and Margarita; Agony "Rasputin"
Conductors: Strobel, Frank
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Chorus; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Brunetti: String Quartets / Schuppanzigh-Quartett
1 CD / CPO / 2001-11-01Works: Gaetano Brunetti: Quartet for Strings in A major; Quartet for Strings in G minor, Op. 2/1; Quartet for Strings in B flat major; Quartet for Strings in E flat major, Op. 2/3
Lehár: Fata Morgana, Zigeunerfest, etc / Jurowski, Berlin
1 CD / CPO / 2001-10-01Works: Franz Lehár: Zigeunerfest (Gypsy Feast), ballet scene for orchestra, NV 283; Wo die Lerche singt (Where the Lark sings); Rodrigo; Ein Märchen aus 1001 Nacht (Fairy Tale from 1001 Nights);...
Conductors: Jurowski, Michail
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
"Here are all the familiar virtues of Lehar's music - glorious melodies, wildly intoxicating rhythms and supreme handling of large orchestral forces. The extra ingredient...continue...
Recording information: Christuskirche Berlin Oberschöneweide (02/23/2001)....continue...
J.C. Bach: Piano Sonatas Op 17 / Harald Hoeren
1 CD / CPO / 2001-09-01Works: Johann Christian Bach: Sonata for keyboard in G major, Op. 17/1, CW A7 (T. 342/1); Sonata for keyboard in C minor, Op. 17/2, CW A8 (T. 341/3); Sonata for keyboard in E flat major, Op. 17/3, CW A9 (T....
Performers: Hoeren, Harald
"Hoeren plays the pieces well. He takes lots of time in Sonata 4:1, probably the sonata I know best. The finale of Sonata 3 swings...continue...
Fesca: Septets Op 26 & 28 / Linos-Ensemble
Klengel: Cello Concertos / Jankovic, Richter, Engeset, et al
1 CD / CPO / 2001-09-01Works: Julius Klengel: Concerto for Cello no 4 in B minor, Op. 37; Concerto for 2 cellos & orchestra in E minor, Op. 45; Concerto for Cello no 1 in A minor, Op. 4
Performers: Jankovic, Xenia; Richter, Christoph
Conductors: Engeset, Bjarte
Ensemble: Hannover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Clara Schumann: Complete Piano Works / Jozef de Beenhouwer
3 CD / CPO / 2001-08-01Works: Clara Wieck Schumann: Sonata for Piano in G minor; Romance for piano in B minor; Impromptu for piano in E major; Romance for piano in A minor; Scherzo for piano no 1 in D minor, Op. 10; Scherzo for p...
Performers: Beenhouwer, Jozef de
"Those who have never heard any music by Clara Schumann have a treat in store for them. As a composer, she was gifted and a...continue...
Raff: Piano Trios no 2 & 3 / Trio Opus 8
1 CD / CPO / 2001-08-01Works: Joseph Joachim Raff: Trio for Piano and Strings no 2 in G major, Op. 112; Trio for Piano and Strings no 3 in A minor, Op. 155
Performers: Fischer, Eckhard; Hauber, Michael; Secondi, Mario de
Ensemble: Opus 8 Trio
Stölzel: Christmas Oratorio Cantatas no 6-10 / Remy, et al
1 CD / CPO / 2001-07-01Works: Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: Das Alte ist vergangen, cantata for soloists & ensemble; Das Ende eines Dinges ist besser denn sein Anfang, cantata for soloists & ensemble; Alles, was ihr tut mit Wo...
Performers: Kobow, Jan; Mertens, Klaus; Schwarz, Britta
Conductors: Remy, Ludger
Ensemble: Weimarer Barock-Ensemble
Perhaps Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel was cpo's most important discovery over the past few years. Anyone who listens to even a few bars of his music...continue...
Grieg: String Quartets / Auryn Quartet
1 CD / CPO / 2001-07-01Works: Edvard Grieg: Quartet for Strings no 1 in G minor, Op. 27; Quartet for Strings no 2 in F major, EG 117 (incomplete)
Ensemble: Auryn Quartett
Edvard Grieg had some difficulties with great traditional forms like the symphony and sonata but nevertheless occupied himself with them his whole life long. Before...continue...
Telemann: Das befreite Israel / Hermann Max, et al
1 CD / CPO / 2001-07-01Works: Georg Philipp Telemann: Das befreite Israel, sacred oratorio for chorus & orchestra, TWV 6; Overture, suite for 2 recorders, strings & continuo in F minor, TWV 55; Der May, secular cantata for 2 voic...
Performers: Abele, Ekkehard; Crook, Howard [Tenor Vocals]; Mertens, Klaus; Schmithusen, Ingrid
Conductors: Max, Hermann
Ensemble: Das kleine Konzert
George Philipp Telemann was a composer whose creative powers continued undiminished through his old age of eighty six years. The last decade of his life...continue...
Lehár: Frühling / Goritzki, Krahnenfeld, Browner, et al
1 CD / CPO / 2001-06-01Works: Franz Lehár: Frühling (Frühlingsmädel), operetta; Elfentanz, concert waltz for orchestra, NV 64; Magyar ábránd (Hungarian Fantasy), for violin & string quartet, Op. 45, ...
Performers: Browner, Alison; Kohler, Markus; Worle, Robert
Conductors: Goritzki, Johannes
Ensemble: German Chamber Academy Neuss
Throughout his life, Franz Lehar feared nothing more than becoming a prisoner of rigid convention. Musical cabarets like "The Hell" enjoyed great popularity, bravely departing...continue...


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FRIDAY, June 27, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Dancing can reduce seniors' knee and hip pain and also improve their walking, a new, small study finds.
The research involved 34 seniors, average age 80, who all had pain or stiffness in their knees or hips as a result mainly of arthritis. The participants -- mostly women -- were assigned to a group that danced for 45 minutes up to two times a week for 12 weeks or to a control group that did not dance.
By the end of the 12 weeks, those who danced had less pain in their knees and hips and were able to walk faster, said Jean Krampe, an assistant professor of nursing at Saint Louis University and lead author of the study.
The use of pain medicines fell by 39 percent among seniors in the dance group but rose 21 percent among those who did not dance, she noted.
The findings about walking speed are important, she added, because seniors who walk too slowly are more likely to fall, be hospitalized or require care from others.
"Doctors and nurses recognize gait speed as the sixth vital sign that can help us predict adverse outcomes for older adults," Krampe said in a university news release.
"Walking just a little more rapidly can make enough of a difference for a person to get across the street more quickly or get to the bathroom faster, which keeps them functional and independent. In our study, those who danced didn't walk dramatically faster, but they had a meaningful change in their walking speed," she added.
The study was published recently in the journal Geriatric Nursing.
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Posted: November 5, 2013It was hardly as dramatic as a raising of the Titanic, but when the nose end of the Captain Al, a 105-foot rust bucket of a tugboat, poked above the surface of the Oakland Estuary for the first time in more than 15 years Monday, a few men ashore got lumps in their throats.
"I'm pretty excited right now," said Will Duncan, the on-scene coordinator with the federal Environmental Protection Agency, as cranes slowly lifted the tug. "It's been a mystery to us since March," when the Captain Al showed up on 3-D mapping of the estuary floor.
The vessel was among the first to be raised in a two-month effort to clear the estuary of more than 40 abandoned crafts, many of which have become nautical obstacles and pollutant-oozing sea coffins.
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Book your room at Hotel Modez
Basic Room, 1 Double BedMax Occupancy: 2 guests
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Loft, One Double BedMax Occupancy: 2 guests
DuplexMax Occupancy: 2 guests
Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly hotel with free breakfast and restaurant
This family-friendly Arnhem hotel is located in a shopping district, within a 15-minute walk of Nederlands Wijnmuseum, Historical Museum, and St. Eusebius. Filmhuis and Museum voor Moderne Kunst are also within 1 mi (2 km).
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and self parking. Free buffet breakfast and free WiFi in public areas are also provided. Additionally, a meeting room and dry cleaning are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 20 individually decorated rooms feature free WiFi and espresso makers. For a bit of entertainment, flat-screen TVs come with cable channels, and guests will also find rainfall showerheads and free bottled water.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This family-friendly hotel also offers a terrace, dry cleaning/laundry services, and an elevator (lift). Onsite parking is available (surcharge). A total renovation of this property was completed in March 2015.
Hotel Modez is a smoke-free property.
- Bar/lounge
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Free breakfast
- Free parking nearby
- Free WiFi
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Luggage storage
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of floors - 3
- One meeting room
- Restaurant
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Terrace
- Total number of rooms - 20
- Year Built 2012
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge), Free parking nearby
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Bathtub or shower
- Cable TV service
- Climate control
- Free bottled water
- Free toiletries
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Espresso maker
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Hair dryer
- Individually decorated
- Private bathroom
- Rainfall showerhead
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A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
Hotel Modez has a restaurant on site.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
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- In-room accessibility
- Accessible parking
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Minimum check-in age is 16
Check-in time ends at 1:30 AM
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Check-out time is 11 AM
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! One child under 3 years old stays free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for EUR 37,50 per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for EUR 15 per night.
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Special cancellation policies or charges may apply for group reservations (more than 8 rooms for the same hotel / stay dates).
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1.05 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 3 years of age.
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- Self parking fee: EUR 14.50 per night
- Pet fee: EUR 25 per pet, per night
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 15 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 37,50 per night
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EVERETT, Wash. -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved a $57,566 Crisis Counseling Immediate Services grant for the Washington Department of Social and Health Services to pay for free counseling services in Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom Counties. The program is aimed at assisting those who had their lives thrown into disarray and confusion by the severe storms and flooding, October 15-23, 2003.
"Disaster stress is a normal reaction when people are uprooted, suffer the loss of precious personal possessions, and are traumatized by the ferocity of severe weather," said Diane R. Offord, the state official in charge of disaster recovery. "Counseling enables them to regain control of their lives."
Children and the elderly are special concerns following a major disaster. Counselors visit schools, neighborhood meetings, shopping centers, and faith communities to listen and help those in need.
"FEMA recognizes that disasters cause emotional and psychological trauma as well as the physical devastation seen by the eye," said Anthony Russell of FEMA, the official in charge of federal recovery operations. "We fund crisis counseling to help people recover from all aspects of the harmful effects of a disaster."
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Looking for vacation rental & property in or around Cetona
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What are the best restaurants in the Chianti region?
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We are planning to be in Siena during the Palio and the week prior, how do we find a beautiful home to stay in with excellent Internet and VOIP accessibility from June22 until July 3? Help Lynore